I want to strip my work of 'effects' until it stands monolithic, based on reality and yet transcending it. It must flow naturally from my materials, from the way of the chisel and the way of the block. . . It is the ultimate ideal.
I'm quite sure that all true professional artists, of every description, in all walks of life, whether their craft is painting, music, sculpture, medicine or anything have one primary concern - mankind.
A sculpture is something that if it falls on your foot, it will break it.
The next step in sculpture is motion.
when a poem says something that could not have been said in any other way, in music, prose, sculpture, movement or paint, then it is poetry.
I have tried to get close to the frontier between architecture and sculpture and to understand architecture as an art.
I love sculpture, and minimal sculpture is really my favorite stuff, but I wasn't very good at it, and I don't think in a three-dimensional way.
Art itself, in all its methods, is the child of religion. The highest and best works in architecture, sculpture and painting, poetry and music, have been born out of the religion of Nature.
My paintings and sculptures, at first glance, may appear to be purely aesthetic; closer up, they are not. They hold a feeling of tentativeness, combined with a sense of arrival.
I came to painting through sculpture, to images through objects. I think that images sit in the middle, somewhere between objects and words.
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.
Ideas were growing in all directions and dimensions; they were becoming a sculpture, or a castle. And then everyone left her, to return to their own affairs; and she was alone, and empty and unbelieving again.
This building is like a book. Its architecture is the binding, its text is in the glass and sculpture.
In dance, in composition, in sculpture, the experience is the same: we are more the conduit than the creator of what we express.
I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time. The oak is especially so because it is a slowly growing tree with a kind of really solid heartwood. It has always been a form of sculpture, a symbol for this planet.
Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
That sculpture is more admirable than painting for the reason that it contains relief and painting does not is completely false. . . . Rather, how much more admirable the painting must be considered, if having no relief at all, it appears to have as much as sculpture!
I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.
Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.
In Scripture the visitation of an angel is always alarming; it has to begin by saying 'Fear not. ' The Victorian angel looks as if it were going to say, 'There, there. ' The literary symbols are more dangerous [than sculptures and pictures] because they are not so easily recognized as symbolical. Those of Dante are best. Before his angels we sink in awe.